Blue Spring Heritage Center (formerly known as Eureka Springs Gardens) is a privately owned tourist attraction in the Arkansas Heritage Trails System containing native plants and hardwood trees in a setting of woodlands, meadows, and hillsides. It is located at Highway 62 West, five miles (8 km) west of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and open daily to the public during warmer months for a fee.

The spring pours 38 million US gallons (140,000 m³) of water daily into the trout-filled lagoon.

Blue Spring Shelter

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The American Indian people who lived here in ancient times (10,000 years ago and beyond to 500 B.C.) are known as the ‘Bluff Dwellers’. These indigenous people populated not only the Blue Spring area, but much of the Ozark Mountains. They lived beneath giant bluff shelters such as this one. As most human beings of their time, they hunted, gathered, and planted. Tools, clothes and many other necessary items were made from many native plants and animals available to them. They also traded goods with other Indian nations.

See also

  • List of botanical gardens in the United States
  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Carroll County, Arkansas

References

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